madeKnown

An international exhibition of twelve 3D printed sculptures and animation emailed from artists around the world opened at UTS Gallery last week in Sydney (2005-09-13). madeKnown, was made tangible by using a 3D rapid prototyping printer to 'print out' each artist's work. The sculptures take up to 60 hours to emerge; methodically using .25mm liquefied plastic strands ejected from the printer's cartridges. Birthed from the same malleable plastic used to build computer casings each artwork enters the world a ghostly shade of translucent white.

Image: Keith Brown, Shoal 2005, rapid prototype sculpture ABS Plastic"
madeKnown

An international exhibition of twelve 3D printed sculptures and animation emailed from artists around the world opened at UTS Gallery last week in Sydney (2005-09-13). madeKnown, was made tangible by using a 3D rapid prototyping printer to 'print out' each artist's work. The sculptures take up to 60 hours to emerge; methodically using .25mm liquefied plastic strands ejected from the printer's cartridges. Birthed from the same malleable plastic used to build computer casings each artwork enters the world a ghostly shade of translucent white.

Image: Keith Brown, Shoal 2005, rapid prototype sculpture ABS Plastic"
By exploring the development and application of new computer technology to create their
work, the artists - from Australasia, Europe and the United States - challenge notions of how sculpture is conceived, produced and experienced. For the artists the 3D printer presents a way to produce objects of elaborate topology and great physical complexity providing a tangible link between the wonderful weightless environment of the computer and the real world metaphors of building, weight and gravity.

With the recent advances in digital media and output technology it appears that the matrix
of all possible shapes has been opened and impossible images can be made real. By asking the question 'can we build what we imagine?' the exhibition creates a convincing space to contemplate the unsettling notion of actualizing the virtual and all that could possibly entail. The tinkering and hybridizing of captured digital data (ranging from the microscopic to the magnified) and then rendering that manipulated data into 3D form or time-based animation undermine long held notions of creation, animation and power. MadeKnown makes this known.

Invited to exhibit by curators Ian Gwilt (UTS School of Design) and Brit Bunkley (Quay School of the Arts, Wanganui UCOL, NZ) the exhibiting artists include Keith Brown (UK), Brit Bunkley (NZ via New York), Dan Collins (USA), Ian Gwilt (AUS), Mary Hale Visser (USA), Steve Hatzellis (AUS), Troy Innocent (AUS), Christian Lavigne (FR), Hye Rim Lee (KOR/NZ), Robert Michael Smith (USA), Michael Rees (USA), Mark Titmarsh (AUS), Elona Van Gent (USA), Marcus William & Susan Jowsey (NZ).

UTS: GALLERY
Level 4 702 Harris Street Ultimo 2007 www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au Monday-Friday, 12-6
13 September - 18 October 2005